KR20160100108A

KR20160100108A - Smart Fish Care Devices

Info

Publication number: KR20160100108A
Application number: KR1020150022661A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 김지웅; 최원영
Original assignee: 김지웅
Priority date: 2015-02-13
Filing date: 2015-02-13
Publication date: 2016-08-23

Abstract

The present invention provides a smart fish care apparatus enabling a remote control regardless of location, so as to effectively manage aquarium fish. Thus, a user may be away for a long time without entrusting aquarium fish to a separate facility even in a situation incapable of caring the aquarium fish due to a long business trip or vacation, and a beginner not having enough knowledge can care aquarium fish in a remote place with only simple operation through a smartphone or a web browser. According to the present invention, the smart fish care apparatus comprises: a body unit having a receiving space in the inside; a feed supply unit attached to the outside of one side of the body unit to supply feed; a reading unit installed in the inside of the body unit to read information about a storage unit included in the feed supply unit; a measurement unit connected to the body unit having a wire capable of allowing information transceiving, and to measure environment information; a control unit installed in the inside of the body unit to adjust external environment information; an output unit installed in the outside of the other surface of the body unit to display information measured through the measurement unit as an image; and a communication unit to provide the environment information measured through the measurement unit to an external terminal.

Description

[0002] Smart Fish Care Devices [0003]

The present invention relates to a smart fish care device for easily raising ornamental fishes, more particularly, a smart fish care device capable of controlling a smart fish care device remotely, effectively managing aquarium fish, and enjoying entertainment through an element, .

Today, tropical fish raised in ornamental fish have more than 400 freshwater fish and more than 150 sea water fish. Due to the unique beauty of the ornamental fish, a large number of hobbyists are hunting ornamental fish. The basic principle of ornamental fish breeding is to make it as close as possible to the environment of the original habitat. Because the ornamental fish have different characteristics and survival environments are different, professional knowledge and much care are needed for the ornamental fish breeding.

If you are in a situation where you can not take care of the aquarium fishes for business trips or for a long time, or for other reasons, you often end up with expensive ornamental fish, so you are not paying much attention to feeding your fish on time and checking the tank environment frequently It is not easy to manage abnormalities.

In the related art, it is described in Korean Patent Registration No. 10-0810996, however, a fish tank having a water purification apparatus can not be managed due to a decrease in the physical distance of the aquarium.

Korean Patent No. 10-0810996

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a smart To provide a fish care device.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a smart fish care apparatus comprising: a body portion having an accommodation space therein; a food supply portion attached to an outer side of one side of the body portion, A reading unit provided inside the body unit for reading the storage unit information in the food supply, a measuring unit connected to the body unit through wired lines capable of transmitting and receiving information, and capable of measuring environmental information, An output unit provided outside the other side of the body unit for outputting information measured through the measurement unit and a communication unit for providing environment information measured by the measurement unit to an external terminal, .

The smart fish care device includes a hydrogen ion exponent sensor provided inside the measuring unit for measuring the acidity or the degree of alkalinity of the external environment, an oxygen saturation sensor provided inside the measuring unit for measuring the amount of oxygen in the external environment, A temperature sensor for measuring a temperature of the external environment, and a waterproof camera provided inside the measurement unit for capturing an external environment, the water sensor being connected to the smart fish care apparatus by wire.

According to the solution of the above-mentioned problems, the smart fish care device according to the present invention has the following effects.

Even in situations where the fish can not be taken care of due to long-term business trips or vacation, the user can check the water inside the body using a waterproof camera and monitor the inside of the body using a PC (personal computer) can do.

In addition, it is possible to feed from a remote site or manage the internal environment.

Accordingly, the user can empty the house for a long period of time without entrusting the ornamental fish to a separate facility, and even a beginner who does not have sufficient knowledge can take care of the ornamental fish with a simple operation through a PC (Personal Computer) or a mobile phone at a remote place .

1 is a flow chart of a smart fish care device according to the present invention;
2 is a block diagram of a smart fish care device according to the present invention.
3 is a diagram showing the communication configuration of a smart fish care device according to the present invention;
4 is a configuration diagram of a smart fish care device according to the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram for confirming information with a PC (Personal Computer) using a smart fish care device according to the present invention. FIG.
6 is a configuration diagram for confirming information with a PC (Personal Computer) using a smart fish care device according to the present invention.
FIG. 7 is a configuration diagram for confirming information with a mobile phone using a smart fish care device according to the present invention; FIG.
8 is a cross-sectional view of a food basket provided in a smart fish care device according to the present invention.
FIG. 9 is an internal view of a food container provided in a smart fish care device according to the present invention (when feeding a large amount of food).
FIG. 10 is an internal view of a food container provided in a smart fish care device according to the present invention (when feeding a small amount of food).

The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be more apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which: FIG. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The advantages and features of the present invention, and the manner of achieving them, will be apparent from and elucidated with reference to the embodiments described hereinafter in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

On the other hand, when an element is referred to as being "comprising" another element in the description of the invention or in the claims, it is not interpreted as being limited to only that element, Elements may be further included.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, the structure of the present invention can be confirmed. FIG. 1 is a flow chart of a smart fish care apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a smart fish care apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 3 is a communication configuration diagram of a smart fish care apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram for confirming information with a PC (Personal Computer) using the smart fish care device according to the present invention, and FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the configuration of the smart fish care device using the smart fish care device according to the present invention FIG. 7 is a view showing a configuration for confirming information with a mobile phone using a smart fish care device according to the present invention. FIG. 8 is a view showing a configuration for confirming information with a personal computer Fig. 9 is a view showing the internal structure of a food cask provided in the smart fish care device according to the present invention (when feeding a large amount of food); Fig. 10 is a cross- Internal structure of troughs provided on the control device is also (to feed delivery of small capacity).

The smart fish care device 100 of the present invention includes a body 10 having an accommodation space therein, a food supply unit 110 attached to the outside of one side of the body 10 to supply food, A control unit 140 provided inside the body 10 and capable of adjusting external environment information, a control unit 140 connected to the body unit 10 by a wire capable of transmitting and receiving information, An output unit 150 provided outside the other side of the body 10 for outputting information measured through the measurement unit 130 as an image, And a communication unit 160 for providing the data to the controller 170.

First, the smart fish care device 100 according to the present invention is provided with a body 10. As shown in FIG. 4, the body part 10 constitutes a body part 10 to which the smart fish care device 100 and the waterproof camera 134 of the present invention can be attached. do.

A food supply unit 110 is attached to the outside of one side of the body 10 to supply food. The food supply unit 110 can be easily attached to and detached from the smart fish care apparatus 100 with a magnet, and is capable of storing various types of food and capacity in a cartridge type that can be freely inserted and removed.

Specifically, the food supply unit 110 includes a food supply module 111 capable of dropping a food having a lower side opened, a storage unit 111 provided inside the food supply module 111 to store information on the type of food and the amount of food And a hole is formed in the lower side of the food supply module 111 so as to correspond to the size of the opened hole of the food supply module 111, A first disk 113 for receiving food to be fed, a disk-shaped first disk 113, a hole having a size different from that of the first disk 113, A second disk 114 having a depth that is substantially perpendicular to the paper surface and having a rotation center axis perpendicular to the paper surface, a second disk 114 provided on the lower surface of the second disk 114, On the side and the other side The yoke is formed is provided with a motor 116 for three revolutions of the disk 115, the disk 2 (114) for delivery of food to the outside environment.

The motor 116 is driven to rotate the second disk 114 to match the hole of the third disk 115 when the second disk 114 feeds the food supplied from the first disk 113 to the third disk 115, 114 is rotated by the motor 116 to feed the food from the second disk 114 to the third disk 115 and is discharged into the body 10.

Specifically, the motor 116 may automatically feed the feed amount stored in the storage unit 112 included in the food supply module 111 and the second disk 114 So as to cooperate with the holes of the disk 115 to feed the food into the body 10.

Specifically, the food feeding unit 110 feeds the food to the food feeding module 111, and stores information such as the type and description of the food, the amount of feeding, and the time zone in the storage unit 112 provided inside the food feeding module 111 And determines the storage unit 112 provided in the food supply module 111 by the storage unit reading apparatus 120 provided in the smart fish care apparatus 100. [

The storage unit reading device 120 reads the storage amount of the remaining amount of the food in the food supply part 110 among functions of the smart fish care device 100 and reads the storage part 112 provided inside the food supply module 111, To the terminal (170), and the user can check the information through the terminal (170).

The terminal 170 includes a personal computer (PC) or a cellular phone.

The food supply unit 110 is a system in which a user operates the terminal 170 through the network by an amount of food input to the storage unit 112 or automatically drops the food at the time stored in the storage unit 112 to be.

The food supply unit 110 is composed of two holes as shown in FIGS. 9 and 10, and feeds the food.

This is because the environment outside the smart fish care device 100 is not only polluted, but the ornamental fish may die if the ornamental fish drop more than the proper amount to eat.

The food supply unit 110 formed of the above two sizes of holes is formed in the following manner.

For example, if you set up 11 g of feed once in the morning, you will have 1 g of active feeding capacity of the feed of the feeding device, 2 g of cans, 5 g of cans of 5 g and 10 g of cans, It works by dropping 1g and dropping exactly 11g.

Here, the capacity of the permeable cylinder can be variably changed.

This way, you can control the amount and the amount of food to be delivered in small quantities. Thus, the amount of food can be finely adjusted according to the number and type of ornamental fish in the body 10, and the ornamental fish can be managed more effectively.

A storage unit reading device 120 is provided inside the smart fish care device 100.

Specifically, it serves to read the storage unit 112 provided in the food supply module 111.

Next, a measurement unit 130 is connected to the smart fish care apparatus 100 through a wire capable of transmitting and receiving information, and is capable of measuring environmental information.

A waterproof camera 134 provided inside the measuring unit 130 to photograph the internal environment of the body 10 and a hydrogen ion exponent sensor provided inside the measuring unit 130 for measuring the acidity or the degree of alkalinity of the external environment 131, an oxygen saturation sensor 132 for measuring the oxygen amount of the external environment, and a temperature sensor 133 provided inside the measurement unit for measuring the temperature of the external environment.

4, the waterproof camera 134 stores the photographed image in a storage device and provides the captured image to a PC (Personal Computer) 171 or a mobile phone 172 via the communication unit 160, You can play it.

A control unit 140 is provided inside the body 10 to control environmental information.

Specifically, the control unit 140 is disposed inside the body 10, receives the external environment information, and transmits the received external environment information to the output unit 150 and the communication unit 160 to control the external environment information.

An output unit 150 provided outside the other side of the body 10 for outputting information measured through the measurement unit 130 as an image is provided.

The output unit 150 is represented by an information display unit 151.

Next, a communication unit 160 for providing environment information measured through the measurement unit 150 to the external terminal 170 through a network is provided.

The communication unit 160 can perform wireless local area communication with the terminal 170 existing outside the network.

The local area communication includes Bluetooth 161 and WIFI 162.

Hereinafter, the operation of the smart fish care apparatus 100 according to the present invention will be described in detail.

1, the smart fish care apparatus 100 and the measurement unit 130 can grasp the environmental information inside the body 10 by releasing the ornamental fishes in the body 10, The internal environment information provided by the device 100 and the measurement unit 130 is output to the output unit 150 and the communication unit 160 through the control unit 140 and is transmitted to the terminal 170).

Specifically, the user inputs or controls the food to be input to the terminal 170 through the food supply unit 110 attached to the smart fish care apparatus 100, and the storage unit (not shown) inside the food supply module 111 112) automatically feeds the ornamental fish with the pre-stored information.

The internal environment of the body 10 is detected by the hydrogen ion index sensor 131, the oxygen saturation sensor 132 and the temperature sensor 133 included in the measuring unit 130, So that the inside of the body 10 can be photographed or photographed. The image photographed by the waterproof camera 134 is output to the output unit 150 or the communication unit 160 through the control unit 140 so that the user can select the smart And controls the fish care device 100 according to circumstances.

Specifically, the waterproof camera 134 photographs the movement, speed, and number of ornamental fishes inside the body part 10 to inform the user through the communication unit 160 of the health condition, survival status, Computer) 171 or the mobile phone 172. [

The waterproof camera 134 continuously measures the ornamental fishes for a predetermined period of time to digitize the ornamental fish numbers, statistically predicts ornamental fish numbers through time averaging, and stores them in the storage device of the waterproof camera 134. When the ornamental fishes are measured, if all or a part of the fishes are killed due to changes in the internal environment of the body part 10, dead ornamental fishes do not move and sink to the floor, so they are no longer caught by the waterproof camera 134.

This can be compared with the image stored in the storage device of the waterproof camera 134 to detect sudden changes in the number of ornamental fishes and all or some of the ornamental fish in the body 10 The control unit 140 outputs the generated information to the output unit 150 or the communication unit 160 to output the internal information of the body 10 to the user through the network.

The user can inform the real time user of the internal environment information of the body part 10 by using a personal computer (PC) 171 or a mobile phone 172 as a notification method.

In addition, when the ornamental fish number suddenly increases, the user can feed the ornamental fish into the water tank arbitrarily, or the fish is hatched by the modified fish and is in the inside of the body part 10.

The health state and the activity state of the aquarium fish can be determined by the internal environment information of the body 10 photographed by the waterproof camera 134. [ When the movement of the fish is slowed down due to the environmental change of the body 10, if the change in the amount of the fish is measured in comparison with the information stored in the storage device of the waterproof camera 134, It is possible to transmit to the user information indicating that an aesthetic condition of the aquarium fish has occurred or an abnormality has occurred in the environment inside the body part 10. In the same manner, if the aquarium fish move faster than usual, the aquarium fishes move faster, It is possible to effectively manage the ornamental fishes by transmitting information to the user through the communication unit 160 in real time in the same manner as described above.

Next, when the user supplies food to the aquarium fishes inside the body part 10, the user performs the method as shown in Figs. 9 and 10.

For example, when the food is supplied to the food feeding unit 110 and the food is fed downward, the food is fed to the disk 114 through the No. 1 disk 113. If the feeding hole of the second disk 114 does not fit into the hole of the first disk 113, the feeding does not go down any further. In other words, it has not dropped its food.

The second disk 114 is provided with holes of two sizes for controlling the amount of food, as described above.

When the food supplied from the food supply unit 110 is lowered to the first disk 113, the second disk 114 rotates and aligns with the hole of the first disk 113, Is charged. The second feed disk 114 filled with the second disk 114 rotates in the reverse direction and aligns the holes with the third disk 115. Then, the hole of the disk # 1 is clogged, and the disk # 2 and the disk # 3 of the disk # 3 are connected.

As described above, it is to be understood that the technical structure of the present invention can be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit and essential characteristics of the present invention.

Therefore, it should be understood that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments and all changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined by the appended claims. It is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments.

10: Body part 150: Output part
100: smart fish care device 151: information display section
110: feeding unit 160: communication unit
111: feeding module 161: Bluetooth
112: storage unit 162: WIFI
113: Disk No.1 170: Terminal
114: Disk # 2 171: PC
115: Disk # 3 172: Cell phone
116: motor
120: storage unit reading device
130:
131: Hydrogen ionization index sensor
132: oxygen saturation sensor
133: Temperature sensor
134: Waterproof camera
140:

Claims

A body portion having a receiving space therein;
A food supply unit attached to an outer side of one side of the body part to supply food;
A reading unit provided inside the body and reading the storage unit information inside the food supply;
A measurement unit connected to the body unit through a wire capable of transmitting and receiving information and capable of measuring environmental information;
A controller provided inside the body to control external environmental information;
An output unit provided on an outer side of the other side of the body and outputting information measured through the measurement unit to an image;
And a communication unit for providing environmental information measured by the measurement unit to an external terminal,

The method according to claim 1,
The food supply unit includes:
A food supply module capable of releasing a food provided with a lower side opened;
A storage unit provided inside the food supply module and storing information on the type and amount of food to be fed;
A first disk provided in a disk shape on an opened lower side of the food supply module, the first disk being formed with a hole having a size coinciding with an opened hole of the food supply module to receive a food supplied from the food supply module;
A disk having a disk shape on the lower side of the disk 1 and having a hole having a size different from that of one side and the other side and having a depth capable of storing a capacity of a predetermined food, disk;
A third disk provided on a lower surface of the second disk to form a hole on one side and the other side so that the disk does not coincide with the disk,
And a motor for rotating the disk (2). The smart fish care device

The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the measuring unit comprises:
A hydrogen ion exponent sensor provided inside the measurement unit for measuring the acidity or the degree of alkalinity of the external environment;
An oxygen saturation sensor provided inside the measurement unit for measuring an oxygen amount of the external environment;
A temperature sensor provided inside the measurement unit for measuring a temperature of an external environment;
And a waterproof camera provided inside the measurement unit for photographing an external environment.

The method according to claim 1,
Wherein,
A smart fish care device provided inside the body part for receiving external environment information and transmitting the information to an output part and a communication part,

The method according to claim 1,
Wherein,
Wherein the mobile terminal is capable of wireless local area communication with an external terminal, and the means for local area communication includes Bluetooth and WIFI.